operating systems

At 08:48 AM 1/5/98 -0600, you wrote: Try loading up Buck Rogers and the Planet of Zoom! on a Cyrix 200 and see how well it plays. Same goes for Frogger. :) They run blindingly fast, making them utterly worthless unless you use one of those slowdown utils, but most of those only run right on 486s. Three, that ancient games don't "hurt" today's Doing what? Being available for "free" (illegally) out there for people to get to them. The fact that people are still playing them doesn't affect today's game market at all. It's a whole different ballpark out there these days. But repackaging the games and shipping them would up the price to at least $10.00 a piece, and you would have to come up with a cheap way to make sure the games ran at original speed on all systems, another few bucks for R&D right there, so you'll probably end up spending $50.00 for a compilation CD with maybe 10 games on it, and nothing else. (Can you say "Roberta Williams Sierra Compilation"?) Why not release the games as shareware, with no set ammount defined? People could pay what the game is worth to them. I think Maxis did that with the original SimCity. Oh, not at all. I expected alot more flak from people when I started this thread, but was suprised at how well the members of the list are taking it. (so far) - John Higginbotham - limbo.netpath.net